* Replication data for "The Evolution of State Courts Research in the 21st Century" in State Politics and Policy Quarterly. By Brent D. Boyea, David A. Hughes, Marcy Shieh, and Kayla S. Canelo 

** Stata/SE 18.0 for Mac (Apple Silicon) 

** Load Data
	* Set working directory to load the data: Note that users will need to input the relevant file path
	cd /Users/user/Desktop/ 

* Figure 1: Average Number of Journal Articles Mentioning State Courts among Six Political Science Journals (1990-2024)

	use "/fig1_dataset.dta"

	twoway line total_rolling year, lcolor(black) ytitle("Total Rolling Average") xtitle("") plotregion(fcolor(gs14)) xlabel(1990 2000 2010 2020, glpattern(solid)) ylabel(,glpattern(solid)) aspectratio(.75)

* Figure 2: Number of Law and Courts Articles in SPPQ (2001-2025)

	use "/fig2_dataset.dta"

	twoway line jp_articles year, lcolor(black) lwidth(thin) ytitle("Total Number of Articles", size(vsmall)) xtitle("") plotregion(fcolor(gs14)) xlabel(2001(1)2025, glpattern(solid) angle(45) labsize(vsmall)) ylabel(,glpattern(solid) labsize(vsmall)) xmtick(##2, grid glpattern(solid) tstyle(none)) ymtick(##2, grid glpattern(solid) tstyle(none)) aspectratio(1)
